@mistermikev Thank you sir.
I appreciate the encouragement & yes it it a poplar body. I am using red oak for The top then a curly maple veneer glued on after. The hard part will be carving the top.
I carved the neck & rough sanded it. I used a round multi-planer & a Shinto rasp saw to carve it. I must say the Shinto makes dust quickly. Great for carving anything.
@Bizman62 I used several techniques to get the look that was desired. As far as the paint I used a hair dryer to make the paint bubble and look warn. I also used a razor blade to chip some paint away. After putting a clear coat on it I used 1200 grit sand paper and triple zero steel wool to dull the finish so that it didn't have a shine to it.
@Bizman62 thank you for the advice for the LP. When I did my Lp jr I used wedges to set the neck. I noticed that a carved top has almost a V shaped carve for the body where the neck is.
And thank you for the compliment on the tele. I hope to finish it very soon.
I have a question on another build just looking for some info.
What is a way that you can get the neck angle cut into a Les Paul body? And do you still have to cut the neck pocket with an angle in it?
Well Happy Holidays !Hope you have all had a Great Christmas and a Happy New Year! So I got a request to put a telecaster guitar kit together an finish it to look like a fender relicited U.S.A. model. These pictures are the original $4000 guitar that he wants the kit guitar to look like.
@curtisa Thank you so much this will help me figure out the wiring from the diagram. I found a diagram that has a single sized humbucker and 2 single coils with 1 volume & 1 tone. Thanks again much appreciated.
@curtisa the pickups I am using are sound foundry single coil pickups and the wires are white ,red and bare. The dual rail single humbucker is sound foundry and the wires are black and white, green and bare, and red.
@curtisa thank you.
I tried to re wire it after watching a video on parallel and series wiring.
What is confusing is not only the colour but the 5 way switch the diagram shows 8 lugs when there is only 7 lugs.
@Bizman62Thank you.for trying to help.
On the humbucker pickup the black & white wires were soldered together & the green and bare wires were soldered together. I changed them to match the diagram.
Finally the paint is finished and it's assembled.
However while doing the wiring I must have done something wrong. The pickups are not working, and the wires are different color code than the wiring diagram that I was following.
Any helpful hints to get this straight would be greatly appreciated.